The tourney had about 50 entrants who played. It was in Anderson
Indiana at the Danger Room Hobby Store on September 11 1999

Well first off, heres the master deck:

Pokemon:

4 Hitmonchan
4 Electabuzz
3 Scyther
1 Jigglypuff
1 Chansey

Trainers:

4 Super Energy Removal
4 Energy Removal
4 Plus Power
3 Professor Oak
3 Bill
2 Gust of Wind
1 Computer Search
1 Scoop Up

Energy:

11 Fighting
9 Electric
4 Double Colorless

The deck itself is easy to play. You just get out one of the three
basic pokemon and use
the trainers to speed you up and slow them down. the plus powers are
really good for
quick kills.


Round one:

I face a kid who was using a five color deck. He puts out a magneton
and my hitmonchan
kills it on turn one.

1-0

Round two:

I face a kid who is playing an electric zapados deck. once again the
hitmonchan kills off
his starter and goes right through his pikachus. by turn 5 he was
finished.

2-0

Round three:

I face a kid who has a big fire deck with charizard and ninetales.
Electabuzz gets some
action and my energy removing was too much for the kid to handle. I
kill off about 4
pokemon and he runs out.

3-0

Round four:

I face a kid who has a make-shift raindance deck with gyrados and lots
of computer
searches. I started with only one pokemon---hitmonchan. on turn four I
get electabuzz
and kill off his magicrap and his chansey.

4-0

Round five:
I play against the predetermined winner of the tourney. for some
strange reason, everyone
thought he would win.  I got out a hitmonchan and by about turn seven,
had my bench
filled with all three beaters. he kept using pokeball and winning. he
would go get a
jigglypuff and put me to sleep. fo about four turns my hitmonchan was
asleep. the game
lasted almost the entire round and I won. He was just stalling anyway.

5-0

By this time, I was the only undefeated person there and I had to wait
for the losers
bracket to finish. whoever won that would face me in the finals. I had
a feeling i would win
anyway but who knows.

Finals:

I play a kid whose deck is unknown. the game went so quick that i didnt
get to see any of
his deck. He played a pokemon that i dont even remember but i energy
removed the
thing. I had electabuzz and on turn two, I drew a prof oak. i played my
plus power and
used the oak. i got two more plus powers and another oak. I used the
two plus powers
and used oak. I got my bill and then another plus power. I used it and
then did my attack.
I flipped heads dealing 80 points of damage to whatever he had and it
killed it. the game
took about a minute. Disappointing final match.

6-0

I won a card box, ten boosters of 2nd edition and a sleeve box with 62
sleeves(strange?).

In my packs i got a hitmonchan, two electabuzzs and a gyrados. very
disappointing :)


Steve Mellinger.
cardphreak@yahoo.com